I made peace with this long ago. Martin has only himself to blame. There will definitely be things which are different in the books... but it will be even more painful to read through chapters about people that ultimately don't matter.

Dickie Dunn wrote:Martin's final book will probably come out a decade after the show is over. I'd expect him to change things to a degree just to give people a reason to read the book. God knows there will at least be a 30 page feast in the book that gets omitted from the show.

That's the reason I couldn't read the books. The silly unneeded detail of every piece of food and every piece of clothing. We get it they had a feast and wore fancy clothes. Get on with it.

Dickie Dunn wrote:Martin's final book will probably come out a decade after the show is over. I'd expect him to change things to a degree just to give people a reason to read the book. God knows there will at least be a 30 page feast in the book that gets omitted from the show.

By then whoever takes over for the deceased Martin will hopefully omit those parts of the final book.

Dickie Dunn wrote:Martin's final book will probably come out a decade after the show is over. I'd expect him to change things to a degree just to give people a reason to read the book. God knows there will at least be a 30 page feast in the book that gets omitted from the show.

That's the reason I couldn't read the books. The silly unneeded detail of every piece of food and every piece of clothing. We get it they had a feast and wore fancy clothes. Get on with it.

I made two attempts at reading "Game of Thrones" and don't think I ever made it to the 100th page. Martin's writing style is too boring and laborious. I like writers that follow some of Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules for Writing.

1. Never open a book with weather.2. Avoid prologues.3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. 6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

I hope that the descriptions of all the great food will be contrasted further about how much life sucks in the winter and when at war. He's getting there. Westeros sounds like a really bad place to live now.

Jon Snow lives. One way or another, by the Old Gods or the Red God, he comes back. This is not me being a bitter fanboy, but its just not good story telling to have his character killed off before his linage is truly explored. And him dying and being resurrected may actually give him a loophole out of his vows.

Also, if Stannis had to die, I'm very glad that it was at the hand of Brienne. I very much like the complex layers of Brienne taking out Stannis at Winterfell with a sword forged from the sword of the wrongfully executed Warden of the North (who always insisted on performing executions himself with the same blade) given to her by a King Slayer and taking this action based upon resolute loyalty to a fallen King who by birth order actually had no legitimate claim to the throne in the first place.

Jon Snow lives. One way or another, by the Old Gods or the Red God, he comes back. This is not me being a bitter fanboy, but its just not good story telling to have his character killed off before his linage is truly explored. And him dying and being resurrected may actually give him a loophole out of his vows.

Also, if Stannis had to die, I'm very glad that it was at the hand of Brienne. I very much like the complex layers of Brienne taking out Stannis at Winterfell with a sword forged from the sword of the wrongfully executed Warden of the North (who always insisted on performing executions himself with the same blade) given to her by a King Slayer and taking this action based upon resolute loyalty to a fallen King who by birth order actually had no legitimate claim to the throne in the first place.

So far in season 6 episode 1 was a little slow, but episodes 2 and 3 were great. Finally got back to the Iron Islands, looking forward to more there. Also finally getting to see what definitely happened at the Tower of Joy is awesome.